Improvement in combined watch-chain bars and pencils



J. H. MABIE. COMBINED WATCH-CHAIN BARS AND PENCIL. .N'o.178.451. Patented June 6,1876.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE,

JOHN H. MA IE, OF HOBUKEN, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED WATCH-CHAIN BARS AND PENCILS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,151, dated June 6, 1876; application filed March 11, 1876.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. MABIE, of Ho boken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have a new and useful (Jombined \Vatch-Ghain Bar and Pencil-Case; and I do hereby declare that the following is a. full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention consists in a novel construction of a pencil-case, whereby-the barrel of the pencil-case is made to serve as a watchchain bar.

The invention is intended more particularly for application to what is known as an ex tension pencil-case, in which provision is made for extending the length of the case when the pencil is used and contracting it whennot in use. Such pencil-cases are of various kinds, some operating with what is known as a screw-movement, and the extension and contraction being eifected by a 1'0- tary motion imparted to one or more of the parts, and others operating with what is known as the magic movement, and the extension and contraction being effected by a longitudinal motion imparted to one of the parts, which gives a like motion to another part in an opposite direction.

The accompanying drawing illustrates the application of my invention to a pencil-case ot' the latter description.

Figure 1 represents the combined watchchain bar and pencil-case attached to achain,

As shown herein, the eye I)' is attached directly to the barrel A. By means of the eye provision is made for the connection of the barrel to a watch-chain, to form a bar, and the eye may be connected to the chain by a ring, or attached directly to one of the links of the chain.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A combined watch-chain bar and pencil-case, in which the barrel of the pencil-case is made to constitute the bar, by having the eye for the connection of the chain attached to said barrel at or about midway of its length, and

the pencil, when in use, is projected from the pencil-case, and when not in use, is drawn entirely within the case, substantially as herein described.

JOHN H. MABIE. Witnesses:

MICHAEL RYAN, FRED HAYNES. 

